By Alec Hogg
After developments last week, I can’t help feeling that the Rainbow Coalition, and those dedicated to its cause, may be investing their energy in the wrong direction.
Last Tuesday, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo was in Durban to lecture at the ICC. The action point of his talk was to encourage the ANC and the local provincial rival, the IFP, to work together. Of course, as an African Nationalist, that’s not a surprise. The meeting after the meeting, however, was.
___STEADY_PAYWALL___My sources on the East Coast say Obasanjo’s stay in the presidential suite at the Oyster Box was sponsored by a KZN businessmen close to the ANC. They say these worthies used the statesman’s visit to facilitate a meeting between top brass in the ANC and IFP. There’s also a counter-claim that while there was a dinner, it was intimate and without political talk.
Whatever the truth around Obasanjo’s trip, the Rainbow Coalition should be paying attention. In our interview yesterday (click here), RW Johnson reminded me IFP founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi was a long-serving cabinet minister in the ANC government. Also, IFP would be a far more palatable partner for the ANC than Malema’s mob. Interesting ne’?
More for you to read:
- RW Johnson expands on SA’S presidential myopia with the looming “nightmare” scenario of an ANC/EFF coalition running the country after 2024. Click here.
- The Red Bull family’s $8 billion wealth boom has topped all Asian dynasties – claiming just over a quarter of global energy drinks market. Click here.
- A sobering case study from the University of Birmingham titled: The South African Revenue Service (SARS) as a case study to explore the relationship between state capture and institutional capacity to address serious and organised crime. Click here.
